Nicola Benedetti
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Biography
A pupil of the Yehudi Menuhin School, Nicola Benedetti has become the best-known British violinist of her generation. Born to an Italian father and an Italian-Scottish mother in Irvine (Scotland) on July 20, 1987, Nicola Benedetti took her first violin lessons at the age of four, and by eight was conducting the National Children's Orchestra of Great Britain. A musical prodigy, in 1997 she joined the Yehudi Menuhin School in Surrey, England, at the age of ten, where she studied under the master and founder and Natasha Boyarskaya. At the end of her first year, she gave a recital at London's Wigmore Hall, before performing at the Yehudi Menuhin memorial service at Westminster Abbey. Winner of the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition in 2004, Nicola Benedetti made her first recordings for the Deutsche Grammophon and Decca labels: Szymanowski: Violin Concerto No. 1 (2005), Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto (2006), Vaughan Williams & Tavener (2007) and Tchaikovsky - Bruch: Concertos (2010), as well as the recitals Fantasie (2009), Italia (2011), The Silver Violin (2012) and Homecoming - A Scottish Fantasy (2014), with conductors Daniel Harding, Andrew Litton, Vasily Petrenko and Christian Curnyn. Invited to the final night of the London Proms in 2012, she has received numerous honors and awards: Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 2013, then Commander in 2019, Queen's Medal for Music in 2017, she won the Grammy Award for Best Classical Instrumentalist in 2020 for the album Marsalis: Violin Concerto - Fiddle Dance Suite (2019) and recorded the album Elgar: Violin Concerto (2020). In 2022, Nicola Benedetti takes over the direction of the Edinburgh Festival and continues to invest in music education for young people with The Benedetti Foundation, created in 2019. After the release of the Baroque recital in 2021, the violinist joins forces with Benjamin Grosvenor, Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Santtu Matias-Rouvali and the Philharmonia Orchestra for the recording of Beethoven's Triple Concerto, released in 2024, then with Nicholas Collon and the Aurora Orchestra for the same composer's Violin Concerto. In 2025, the album Violin Café, recorded with the new ensemble of the same name, features pieces by Wienawski, Sarasate, Debussy and traditional British tunes.
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- Tartini: Sonata in G Minor for Violin and Continuo, B.g5 - "The Devil's Trill" - 2. Allegro by Christian Curnyn
- Tavener: Lalishri Cycle 2
- Tavener: Lalishri Cycle 3
- Tavener: Lalishri - Introduction
- Tavener: Lalishri Cycle 1
- Beethoven: 22 Scottish Songs, WoO 156 - No. 1, Untitled featuring Nicola Benedetti
- Tavener: Lalishri Cycle 4
- Tzigane
- Massenet: Méditation from Thaïs featuring London Symphony Orchestra
- Vocalise Opus 34 No.14
- The Four Seasons: Summer II. Adagio e Piano - Presto Forte: The Four Seasons: Summer II. Adagio e Pi by Scottish Chamber Orchestra
- Sospiri, Op. 70 (Arr. Violin and Piano) by Petr Limonov
- Szymanowski: Violin Concerto No. 1, Op. 35 - Cadenza. Allegro moderato featuring London Symphony Orchestra
- Traditional: Londonderry Air "Farewell to Cucullain" (Arr. Kreisler for Violin, Cello & Piano) featuring Benjamin Grosvenor
- Szymanowski: Violin Concerto No. 1, Op. 35 - Vivace assai featuring London Symphony Orchestra
- Chausson: Poème, Op. 25 featuring London Symphony Orchestra
- Beethoven: 22 Scottish Songs, WoO 156 - No. 1, Untitled featuring Benjamin Grosvenor
- Saint-Saëns: Havanaise, Op. 83 featuring London Symphony Orchestra
- Massenet: _: Massenet: Méditation [Thaïs] Backing Track featuring London Symphony Orchestra
- Beethoven: Verschiedene Volkslieder, WoO 157: No. 8, By the Side of the Shannon featuring Gerald Finley
- Gershwin: Gershwin: It Ain't Necessarily So by London Symphony Orchestra
- Tavener: Fragment for the Virgin by London Symphony Orchestra
- Beethoven: 20 Irish Songs, WoO 153: No. 11, When Far From the Home featuring Gerald Finley
- Brahms: Wie melodien zieht es mir, Op. 105 No. 1 featuring London Symphony Orchestra
